Top 10 Developer Tool Categories
Welcome to the Dev Direct Top 10 developer tool and software component categories - our most visited categories over the last 30 days. This list is updated every weekday morning.
| 1. Debugging & Profiling - Use profilers to help track down performance bottlenecks and the causes of errors in your code. |
| 2. Diagramming - These components enable enable developers to add diagramming capabilities to their applications. They are oriented towards the creation of diagrams that describe objects, relationships and flows such as work flow diagrams, data entity relationship diagrams (ERD), flowcharts and organisation heirarchy diagrams. For numeric applications such as the production of graphs, see Graphing & Charting. |
| 3. Document Conversion - Components which enable the application to convert documents from one format to another. For example from MS Word format to plain text, or from PDF to HTML. See also PDF Documents |
| 4. File Upload/Download - The file upload/download page lists a complete set of ActiveX Components, Controls, libraries and objects that enable the transfer of files using HTTP and FTP protocols. File transfers can be performed from web pages to a server or from host to host both securely and using compression. |
| 5. FTP & SFTP - The ActiveX & COM FTP controls lists all FTP components, controls, libraries and objects for the ActiveX/COM platform. These products allow you to add support for the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol to your windows and ASP applications. This standard covers the management and movement of files across the Internet. We have both FTP client and FTP server products and some products cover Secure FTP (SFTP). |
| 6. Image Processing - With these products you will be able to add impage processing functionality to your applications whether client or web server based. |
| 7. Menu - Add side menus, top menu bars, drop down, fly-out and cascading menus and many other types of menues with our range of menu components. Add graphics and style menus like your favorite applications such as Windows XP and Office 2003. The menu control page contains all menu libraries, components and controls for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi. |
| 8. PDF - ActiveX PDF Controls and PDF COM libraries can be used to rapidly add PDF capabilites to your solutions. Use these APIs when building document management systems or when producing output in a standard, interchangeable format. Create PDFs to email documents or save them to disk. |
| 9. Reporting, Report Writers - |
| 10. User Interface Collections - The user interface suites page lists all GUI component and control suites for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi. |
